Fishing the pipe.

[tiinker]

Has anyone or does anyone fish what I call the pipe. I was first shown this by one of my old friends, He had a fishing punt on the Thames at Richmond. It consisted of a six foot length of down pipe with a 8 oz lead clipped on the bottom end and a funnel pinned and glued into the top end. This would be lowered over the side of the punt and fixed to the gunnel in between the two of us sitting broad side on to the flow. Maggots and hemp would be trickle feed down the pipe and into the flow it worked a treat. I have used it on weirs and river banks to get bait down in the water. I used it once on Aldermaston main weir on the kennet had three nice barbel until the owners son got the needle and opened up the sluice at the side of where I was fishing and washed my bed of feed down river. A rod tube makes a good bait tube the bits can be fitted with self tappers a old Idea that can pay big dividends.

 

[theartist]

I fish a few dodgy waters where a six foot pipe could come in handy


Joking aside that sounds like a genius idea especially in the scenarios you describe.

 

[tiinker]

I fish a few dodgy waters where a six foot pipe could come in handy


Joking aside that sounds like a genius idea especially in the scenarios you describe.

It works a treat for putting down beds of particle on the river bed or for feeding mid water. those old boys were very practical anglers.

 

[Lord Paul of Sheffield]

I've never heard of this before - you live and learn

 

[tiinker]

I've never heard of this before - you live and learn

Give it a go it can be used in many ways you can even trickle feed a margin . Just mod a bait box to fit the pipe put in a screen to restrict the flow of maggot and place at a angle and let the maggots do the rest. When we were kids we used to hang road kills in the branches of overhanging trees and let nature do the rest.

 

[cg74]

Tiinker, out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on bait boats?

 

[tiinker]

Tiinker, out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on bait boats?

I hate them with a vengeance as you well know as I have said many times on this forum even to the extent of if I had the money I would have a stealth radio controlled U-boat made and sink everyone of them if they were ever allowed on the Bec a member was removed for using one in the very early 80s

 

[cg74]

I hate them with a vengeance as you well know as I have said many times on this forum even to the extent of if I had the money I would have a stealth radio controlled U-boat made and sink everyone of them if they were ever allowed on the Bec a member was removed for using one in the very early 80s

Actually I didn't know, I thought your opinion might be one of hatred though.

Why do you detest them with such vengeance?

 

[Tee-Cee]

I have seen the 'pipe' use on a punt when I fished a well upstream stretch of the Dorset Stour back in the late 70's. I wasn't in this particular punt but I know they were long trotting down toward a bridge and this contraption got the maggots down to the bottom (I assume) very quickly....no idea if it improved catches!

I remember reading an old **** Walker book which made mention of a similar method used by one Tom Sails, an angler of note way back when, who used a rolled up newspaper ( to produce a 'tube' of sorts) to deliver a steady stream of maggots into his swim, obviously from the bank as it wouldn't have worked in the water!!!

I may be wrong on this, but it could have been used in a 'match' he had against Walker, a sort of 'contest' organised by Angling Times, which pitted 'matchman' against 'specialist big fish' man ...................

ps The book may have been 'No need to Lie' by Walker.........Always thought what a great name for a book.....


pps Is 'tinker' the new 'Ron Clay' I ask myself..........................Some way to go on the Thread count though!!







NB! Not too many times Walker's name crops up in posts now that 'Ron the man' no longer uses FM.................!!

 

[tiinker]

I have seen the 'pipe' use on a punt when I fished a well upstream stretch of the Dorset Stour back in the late 70's. I wasn't in this particular punt but I know they were long trotting down toward a bridge and this contraption got the maggots down to the bottom (I assume) very quickly....no idea if it improved catches!

I remember reading an old **** Walker book which made mention of a similar method used by one Tom Sails, an angler of note way back when, who used a rolled up newspaper ( to produce a 'tube' of sorts) to deliver a steady stream of maggots into his swim, obviously from the bank as it wouldn't have worked in the water!!!

I may be wrong on this, but it could have been used in a 'match' he had against Walker, a sort of 'contest' organised by Angling Times, which pitted 'matchman' against 'specialist big fish' man ...................

ps The book may have been 'No need to Lie' by Walker.........Always thought what a great name for a book.....


pps Is 'tinker' the new 'Ron Clay' I ask myself..........................Some way to go on the Thread count though!!







NB! Not too many times Walker's name crops up in posts now that 'Ron the man' no longer uses FM.................!!

Tom Sails was a top Lincoln match angler of very high regard and you are right he fished a three sided match against Richard Walker on the last leg of the match the two men fished the royalty for the first time Walker caught two barbell legering with cheese paste that gave him the match I cannot remember the weights of the fish or the finishing weights. I have them in one of my books somewhere.

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Actually I didn't know, I thought your opinion might be one of hatred though.

Why do you detest them with such vengeance?

It is not in the spirit of what I see as angling. To me if you cannot cast to it then you do not fish it. If other people want to use them on other waters that is up to them. We have boats on the Bec that members can use for fishing or retrieving lines or snagged fish ect. But nobody uses them for fishing out of or for baiting up with. They were allowed for baiting swims till someone took liberties and the members asked for the practice to be stopped.

 

[stu_the_blank]

if I had the money I would have a stealth radio controlled U-boat made and sink everyone of them

The hunt for Robin Red Octobermg:

 

[tiinker]

The hunt for Robin Red Octobermg:

Code name Donitz.

 

[cg74]

It is not in the spirit of what I see as angling. To me if you cannot cast to it then you do not fish it. If other people want to use them on other waters that is up to them. We have boats on the Bec that members can use for fishing or retrieving lines or snagged fish ect. But nobody uses them for fishing out of or for baiting up with. They were allowed for baiting swims till someone took liberties and the members asked for the practice to be stopped.

Thanks for the reply.

 

[harry trotter]

when I was knee high to a water bailiff I was lucky to fish the great ouse with both the Taylor brothers and sir Richard ( well in my opinion he should have been ) a long piece of string with a long dead chicken or pheasant were often adjacent to the swim being fished. I think responsibility was always denied by all present!! Although the pipe was not used on the Ouse what was tried quite often was the lower sections of an old Tonkin cane roach pole. This had a funnel rammed into the thick end and was fixed via bank sticks to poke out over the current, a pint of gentles usually took about thirty minutes to empty into the swim. I have since tried it using a margin pole on match lakes where its allowed and it works a treat in getting carp feeding mad!!

 

[tiinker]

when I was knee high to a water bailiff I was lucky to fish the great ouse with both the Taylor brothers and sir Richard ( well in my opinion he should have been ) a long piece of string with a long dead chicken or pheasant were often adjacent to the swim being fished. I think responsibility was always denied by all present!! Although the pipe was not used on the Ouse what was tried quite often was the lower sections of an old Tonkin cane roach pole. This had a funnel rammed into the thick end and was fixed via bank sticks to poke out over the current, a pint of gentles usually took about thirty minutes to empty into the swim. I have since tried it using a margin pole on match lakes where its allowed and it works a treat in getting carp feeding mad!!

I cannot remember where the road kill idea came from but it could have been Fred J. It was around 58 when I first used it with a hedgehog over the chase in Dagenham.